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Petition update, 21 March 2007

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There could be as many as 300,000 adults in the UK who, having grown up with normal hearing,lose it as a consequence of accident, illness or injury and are thus deprived of their ability to communicate. They do not use sign language, but rely instead on the written word for most of their communication needs. They are often very isolated and social exclusion is a serious issue. The major organisation that works for the exclusive benefit of people affected by APHL is a small charity that runs specialist rehabilitation services and outreach support. The rehabilitation services are only ever funded on a purely discretionary basis and people miss out even though they are particularly vulnerable,at a high risk of losing their livelihood, suffering relationship difficulties and developing mental health problems as consequences of the onset of total or near-total deafness. If the resources were made available so that more people could take part in rehabilitation programmes, many of the negative consequences of acquired profound hearing loss as experienced by up to 300,000 voting adults could be successfully addressed, resulting in cost savings for the NHS and Social Services and in more people affected by APHL being able to once again make a fuller contribution to family life and to the economic and social fabric of their community.

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• juley bexley
• K.E.ORAM
• Irene Oswald
• Claire O'Connor
• Jim Scobbie
• Rhian Angharad Griffiths
• Ineke Mennen
• Peter R Davies CB CBE
• Joanne McCann
• Jane Ninnis
• Debbie Wheelwright
• Liesbet Bormans
• Doug Tonner
• Derek Dempsey
• Rachael Mutl
• Nigel Hewlett
• Sara Wood
• Alison Thomas
• diane lambert
• Marie Waller
• Jenny Bennison
• Dr Jo Edwards
• KEVIN SKELLY
• Diane McMillan
• Rachel Jennings
• Philippa Cornforth
• Alicia Cook
• Kathry mackenzie
• Nadine McCann
• Helene Ferguson
• John Askey
• Jennifer Forrest
• R.A.Carley.
• Rebecca Rodger
• Danielle Marsden
• Clare Murray
• Claire McRobbie
• Alison Kennedy
• Bob McChesney
• Helen McNeill
• Ian Newman
• Doris Peck
• Val Tait
• janet geraghty
• Alex Mitchell
• Carol Riley
• Eleanor Griffiths
• Margery McBain
• heather smith
• Kate Blanchard
• mervyn thomas (TOHI)
• Bob Bridgewood
• Anne Edlmann
• Heather Coleman
• Amy McCandlish
• Beth Claesen
• Graeme Sutherland
• Paul McPate
• Fiona Head
• Pauline Carey
• Margaret Binder
• zoe bell
• Tony Julian Paulden
• Nigel Williams
• Jane Farwell
• Paul N Tomlinson
• Nabeelah Dar
• Alison Asafu-Adjaye
• Geraldine Muse
• Joan Graham
• Cheryl Evans
• Deepa Shastri
• Brian Archbold
• james reid
• Rhian Evans
• Louise McDonald
• Katherine King
• Anna Morris
• Jim Guinnessy
• Aoife Skeffington
• Elizabeth Merchant
• Joe Simms
• Jennifer Baxendale
• Alison McConville
• Marie Cox
• Gillian Reid
• Katherine Jane Wilson
• Rosie Herbert
• William Herbert
• Pamela Murray
• John McIrvine
• Jane Riches
• Alison Pendlowski
• Martina Montague
• Richard A Irving
• Judith Daniel
• Craig McKenzie
• sarah swift
• Joseph Allan Green
• Hanna O'Brien
• Ray Dafter
• Susan Gaston
• D>Arnold
• Richard Byrnes
• Hayley Owen
• Ana Maria G. C. Maguire
• Susan O'Malley
• Heather Murphy
• Fraser Bell
• alison heath
• Louise Jackson
• Gabrielle Radnor
• Margery Franklin-Davies
• Linda Ward
• Amy Ravey
• johanna Nicholson
• Elaine Vernon
• Jackey Weightman
• Alan Weightman
• fiona main
• L Hardy
• Colin Brown
• paulene Scott
• Stuart Morrison
• Sandra Cottrell
• Roland Hilton
• Barbara Hilton
• Liz Gedge
• l pringle
• Victoria Sadler
• Alistair Marks
• wendy horton
• Derek Craigie
• Emma Hancock
• Clive Boswell
• Jane Hull
• Rachel Wyper
• James Wengraf-Townsend
• Jo Atkinson
• Glyn Sanders
• Shana Grummitt
• Sara Rhys Jones
• Francesca Amadio
• David Alcock
• Lilian Lawson OBE
• Faye McManus
• lesley weatherson
• William Clapham
• Geoff Hay
• Fiona Houghton
• alan james cumming
• Derek Dunbar
• catherine fletcher
• James Strachan
• Joanne Dutton
• Sarah Williams
• Karen Smith
• Amanda Fletcher
• Mrs Janet Saville
• Helen Pryce
• anna miller
• Jonathan Parsons
• Brian Chapman
• Bridget Ditcham
• Ruth Beer
• Gemma Stewart
• Adam Evans
• Charlotte Smith
• Paul Chaplin
• Pradeep Thatai
• helen Robson
• emma gray
• chris smtih
• Danielle Georgiou
• Patrick Mulloy
• Elizabeth bain
• alan dawes
• Clair Waterman
• Angela southern
• Margaret Ormonde
• lista mcarthur
• Kathryn Paterson
• Samantha Bissett
• Anne Kennedy
• William Downie
• Gemma Roulston
• Joanna Blaquiere
• Adam Benedict Canning
• Theresa Higgins
• Alan Morgan
• Lynnette Kavanagh
• rachel lowther
• Tracy Wright
• Nadhira Chowdhury
• Jane Clarke
• Margaret Lamb
• Helen Akers
• Libby Hawkins
• Erna McEvoy
• Emily Owen
• Hans Butler
• Tony Barlow
• david farrell
• Isabelle Antunes-Bridge
• Jean Gough
• nigel newberry
• Fran Walker
• Joshua Baker
• Sarah Roberts
• Julie Ryder
• Cheryl Slater
• Susan C Anderson
• Anthony Williams
• e r horler
• Colin Dafter
• Cllr Kate Smith
• Margaret Eccleston
• Debra Sabri
• Joanne Measham
• Alison Hicking
• Iain Gibb
• Karen Gibb
• Mary Graham
• Dr Dale Mellor
• Gillian Carron
• rosalind abrahams
• Susan Cecilia Carson
• Jane Cochran
• Tom Delaney
• Ian mckean
• Liz Courtnay
• Joan Daly
• Judith Bogle
• Elizabeth Deluce
• David George Eccleston
• marie fraser
• Janet Sanderson
• ian taylor
• Frances Milne
• Lilian Jeanette Whettem
• Jan Barlow
• Angela Trowse
• Marion Atkin
• Paul Mcphoy
• Jane Titterton
• Gavin Macpherson
• FRANK LANDAMORE
• gareth batty
• Elaine Burke
• David Clarke
• GEORGE TERRENCE BRADLEY
• Mayuri Hirani
• Frances Pra-Lopez
• Claire Twist
• DORIS PHILLIPS
• Sol Hoch
• Tania McMillan
• Matthew Goldsmith
• Natalia Zharkova
• Rosie Morrison
• Diane Florence
• David S Thompson
• Kate Goldsmith
• Bernard Hurley
• Sandy Savery
• Jim and Ellison Hudson
• Lisa Kantor
• John & Ros Bent-Marshall
• Lisa Cordaro
• Nicola Laing
• Suzie Maine
• Vasiliki Petrou
• Kerry Shanahan
• Sandy Grimes
• Stuart Westcott
• William Falconer
• Bridget Wootton
• Alex Henderson
• Lynda Pritchard
• Pat Howe
• Abigail Newman
• Margaret Prosser
• DAVID BUSHELL
• paul tanton
• Sarah Allom
• Janette Goodinson
• Hannah Phillips
• Deirdre O'Flynn
• Philip Biggs
• nicola fleming
• Ian Roberts
• Annie Rhodes
• Lisa Coles
• Kathryn Dawson
• Jill Featherstone
• Hilary McColl
• Doreen McInnes
• Kelly Ufland
• Norman Jewitt
• John Machin
• Mary Machin
• Vera Froom
• dinda evans
• Marc Crane
• Terry L Waters
• rachel Stevenson
• Maxwell Roberts
• Avril King
• Thom Jacobs
• Maria Reguera
• Mervyn James
• joanne westgate
• Joel Kellhofer
• I.Fletcher
• Eleanor Corey
• Deborah Lambert
• Gordon Hay
• Louise
• Stuart Tooth
• Albert Antona-Elias
• Iain Sutherland
• Margaret Hogarth
• Jennifer Foster
• Trevelyan Nicholas
• julie musson
• Stuart Callan
• Steven Wynne
• Matt Nichol
• Graham Noble
• David Page
• Nicola Broekhuizen
• tracey mitchell
• Ann Parsons
• Susan Gibbs
• Eric Morris
• Jean Kendall
• KAREN OVER
• Rowan Butler
• Lucy Over
• freek wisseloo
• Louise Ashley
• Karen Dowse
• Neroy Nath
• Karen Hill
• n jancke
• g. dryland
• Michael Trodden
• Rosie Hayes
• Tara Hendry
• paul Evans
• Carol Inclan
• Gordon harrison
• alan mson
• mary addison
• I.Khalifa
• Sara Williams
• Tessa Howard
• Sharron Pridham
• Jayne Wilkins
• Rosemary Siggers
• Stefan Ferguson
• stephen hartman
• Sue Beecham
• Lorraine Newman
• LINDA WHATLEY
• John Robert Cherry
• Bridget Wright
• Christopher Wood
• MRS CAROLE BURLEIGH
• MR WILLIAM KINCAIDE
• Lesley Whittaker
• Andrew York
• polly robertson
• Hannah Brown
• Dorothy McRobert
• Janet Pye
• Joyce McDonagh
• Denise Selvon
• Gillian McCaughey
• Irene Delaney
• Patricia Middlemiss
• Helen Warren
• Sharron Axford
• Mary Stephens
• k terry
• aaron taylor
• Frances Ansell
• Tony Wilkins
• sue lynn
• Tracey McGovern
• Ann Hopkins
• Zoe Holdsworth
• Julie King
• Cliff Eastabrook
• Elene Morgan
• victoria asquith
• Vincent Nicholas
• karen mckenzie
• Heather Rathbone
• Frances Dobson
• PAUL CRAMPHORN
• Gemma
• Graham Allen-Collins
• Angela Reid
• Julie Crouch
• Jeremy Freeman
• Maureen Fisher
• Tracey Ward
• Edward O'Brien
• Martin Griffiths
• Gordon Chapman
• Helen Mcinally
• Gordon Speirs
• Frances McClafferty
• Margaret L. Howard
• Pam Comiskey
• Sarah Eaton
• Steve Wright
• DARREN THORMAN
• Bianca Lebziz
• Ian Game
• Tina Lannin
• Nicholas Veitch
• Catherine Julian
• chloe wicks
• Linda Zack
• julie clark
• Paul Castleton
• CINDY COLLIER
• yvonne walls
• Yvonne Anderson
• David Hart
• Tim Blackwell
• ginny Kanka
• Norah Clewes
• Ishbel S. Donkin,
• Susan Stagg
• Victor Markham
• Owen Beith
• Sue Williams
• rachel;stone
• William Brooks
• Lorraine Robinson
• Cathy Brennan
• victoria kate coleman
• Peter Ian Brown
• Steph Ward
• Lynne Taylor
• Vivien Stewart
• Tony Herbert
• Mary J Bayntun
• ian mason
• Maggie Short
• Maxine Letham
• Alison Cookson
• Teresa Warren
• John Chamberlain
• sheila clifford
• Juliet Paddon
• Annie Bell
• Beverly George
• Janette Hewitt
• John Johnson
• J. Krabbe
• Molly Miles
• R.H.Wilson
• michael zuniga
• Christine E. Whitehead
• Jennifer \holding
• Rachel Collinge
• David Burrows
• June Wildman
• Ingrid Sellman
• Vanessa Deacon
• Jean Miles
• Christine Steward
• William Campbell
• Rosaleen Rodgers
• Paul Phillips
• peggyjean steele
• susanjean anderson
• Lamenda Kingdon
• Mary Jolly
• Cathy Harrison
• Avril Lacey
• Ben Coleman
• Laura Quinton
• Anne Richardson
• S Paddon
• Reuben Andrews
• Alison France
• Betty Pauline Turpin
• mark Cunliffe
• TINA KEMRAN
• kate thomas
• melanie sherrington
• Nancy Boswell
• Kate Robertson
• PETER HOWARD
• Anthony G Connor

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